"For Free" is a single by American musician DJ Khaled, featuring Canadian rapper Drake, released on June 3, 2016, by We the Best Music Group and Epic Records as the lead single from DJ Khaled's ninth studio album, Major Key. The song was produced by Nineteen85, Jordan Ullman and co-produced by Frankie Cutlass. The song was certified Platinum by the Recording Industry Association of America (RIAA) on September 15, 2016, for selling over 1,000,000 digital copies in the United States.

On Snapchat, DJ Khaled talked about "the Drake vocals finally [being] in", referencing the then unreleased song. The song samples lyrics and cadences from Too Short's "Blow the Whistle" and interpolates Akinyele's "Fuck Me For Free" produced by platinum producer Frankie Cutlass. The single was premiered by Zane Lowe on Beats 1 Radio on June 3. One of Drake's verses pay homage to Kendrick Lamar's To Pimp a Butterfly song, "For Free? (Interlude)" with a lyric that states, "and like your boy from Compton said/You know this dick ain’t free."

On the chart dated June 25, 2016, "For Free" entered the US Billboard Hot 100 at number 18, powered by first-week digital download sales of 104,748 copies. It became DJ Khaled's fourth highest-charting single, peaking at number 13 in its ninth week (behind 2011's "I'm on One" with Drake, Rick Ross and Lil Wayne and 2017's "Wild Thoughts", with Rihanna and Bryson Tiller and "I'm the One", with Justin Bieber, Quavo, Chance the Rapper, and Lil Wayne). In the United Kingdom, the song has peaked at number 25, while peaking at number 47 in Canada and at number 79 in France, making it Khaled's most successful single in those countries.

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